On Humans
Ilari Mäkelä
Where do we come from? What brings us together? Why do we love? Why do we destroy?
On Humans features conversations with leading scholars about human nature, human condition, and the human journey. From the origins of war to the psychology of love, each topic brings fresh insights into perennial questions about our self-understanding.
Support: Patreon.com/OnHumans
Articles: OnHumans.Substack.com
Focus areas: Anthropology, Psychology, Archaeology, Philosophy, Big History
On Humans features conversations with leading scholars about human nature, human condition, and the human journey. From the origins of war to the psychology of love, each topic brings fresh insights into perennial questions about our self-understanding.
Support: Patreon.com/OnHumans
Articles: OnHumans.Substack.com
Focus areas: Anthropology, Psychology, Archaeology, Philosophy, Big History
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the On Humans podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Guns, germs, and steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Fabián Chueca
Jared DIAMOND
(MEI )DAI MENG DE (Diamond J. ) XIE YAN GUANG YI
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
An Economic History of India
Growth, Income and Inequalities from the Mughals to the 21st Century
Bishnupriya Gupta
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Dawn of Everything
A New History of Humanity
David Wengrow
David Graeber
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The better angels of our nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Hubris
Haslam, Jonathan
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Goodness Paradox
Richard Wrangham
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Race, monogamy, and other lies they told you
Busting Myths About Human Nature
Agustin Fuentes
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Great Divergence
China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy.
Kenneth Pomeranz
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Catching Fire
How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard Wrangham
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hierarchy in the Forest
Christopher Boehm
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How the Mind Works
Steven Pinker
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Science and civilisation in China
Joseph Needham
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Romance of the three kingdoms
Luo Guanzhong
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The creative spark
How Imagination Made Humans Distinct
Agustin Fuentes
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tamed
Alice Roberts
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Botanic Age
Dean Falk
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Homo Britannicus
Chris Stringer
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hybris
The Rise and Fall of Humanity
Johannes Krause
Thomas Trappe
